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Affliction Signs Exclusive Deal With Fedor Emelianenko
Published 10/16/2008 by Kid Nate at Bloody Elbow
MMA Weekly broke the story, but MMA Convert boils it down to these handy bullet points: First "joint venture" will likely take place on Jan. 24 at The Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The main event will feature Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski. Second "joint venture" will likely take place in April or May and feature Josh Barnett vs. Aleksander Emelianenko (unclear if this is planned as a main event). M-1 is confident Aleks will be issued a license to fight. His rumored medical issues have apparently been resolved. No ...

Affliction gets into bed with M-1
Published 10/16/2008 by fightlinker at Fightlinker.com » Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap
Affliction gets into bed with M-1 October 16, 2008 – 10:38 am by fightlinker [image] Today at noon there’s gonna be a press conference in New York to announce two things: that Affliction and M-1 Global are ’solidifying’ their relationship, and by extension Donald Trump will now be shilling for Fighting Fedor , the worst idea in the universe. If you don’t remember what Fighting Fedor is all about, it’s basically a TUF ripoff except instead of getting into the UFC, you get to … fight Fedor. Here’s Jesse Holland with his thoughts on the concept: Unfortunately the series has been in pre-production longer than Duke Nukem Forever and despite the ...